Shingle-package



im@ Mdem G'. H. MEGQUIER.

SHING'LE PACKAGE. v

No. 495,423. Patented Apr. 1lv1893.

@Ntra TATES 'PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. MEGQUIER, OFANACORTES, WASHINGTON.

sHlNGYLE-PACKAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,423, dated April 11, 1893. Application tiled January A1'7, 1893. Serial No. 458,661. (No model.)

.To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H; MEGQUIER, a citizen of the United States. residing at Anacortes, in the county of Skagit and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shingle-Packages; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

illy improvement relates to an improved article of manufacture, to wit, a bunch of shingles so constructed that, for the same number of shingles it will occupy much less space than the ordinary bunch making it possible to stow more of them in a car or other vehicle of transportation than can be done with the ordinary form. My improved bunch is also much more convenient to handle and is less liable to fall to pieces or become disarranged in the rough usage incident to numerous handlings. These results are obtained in the manner illustrated in the drawings annexed and more particularly pointed out in the specification hereinafter.

Figure l is a perspective view of my irnproved bunch of shingles. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same.

In the drawings A, represents the shingles, which are packed in a long bundle with the butts all on one side and the tips all on the other side. This makes a bundle which, as shown in Fig. 2, is of a wedge shape in cross section. AAt the tips of the shingles are placed the strips B, B, for binding the bundle together. These strips are made much thinner than those used on the ordinary bunch, and are secured on the bunch by metal bands B', B', at each end and also by the metal band B2, passing over the tips of the shingles at the center of the bunch. These bands may be attached by short nails which pass only through the binding strips, or by longer nails which pass into or even through the bundle. As these would be at the extreme tips of the shingles, the hole made thereby would not injure the shingles. T he use of such nails is preferred as it more thoroughly secures the binding strip upon the bunch.

The object of the center band B2, is to keep the bunch compressed and prevent spreading in the center. This might be accomplished by simply using nails y which pass entirely through the bunch and both strips, clinching on the opposite side. The use of the metal band as shown is however preferred. If thought desirable the central band might be continued around the entire bundle.

At the butts of the shingles are two similar binding strips C, C, which are secured upon the bunch in a similar manner by the metal bands C', C', at the ends and a center band C2. ln this case however' the nails for securing the center band C2, should be short so as not to injure the shingles. Instead of having the butt strips at the very ends of the shingles they may be dropped back from the ends a distance sufficient to allow the tip strip of another bunch to lie in this space when the bunches are piled upon one another. In this case of the butt strips itls not so essential for the purpose of protecting the shingle ends that they should be at the very shingle ends as the butts of the shingles are large enough to not be liable to breakage if left unprotected for that distance. The size of this bunch for one size or grade of shingles would be three inches on narrow edge, eight inches on wide edge, sixteen inches broad and forty seven inches long, there being twenty one layers of shingles. The dimensions given are over all and include bands. tents of the bunch four thousand one hundred and eighty-six cubic inches. The ordinary bunch of the same grade of shingles containing the same number (a quarter thousand), measures twenty inches by twentyeight inches by eight and one-third inches, making its contents four thousand six hundred and sixty-six and two-thirds cubic inches, or a saving of over ten per cent. in the space required.

In shipping long distances, as by rail from the Pacilic Coast to the Mississippi Valley, this saving is an important item, as the limit to the capacity of the cars is that of bulk and not weight. The same applies to shipments by water and in addition my bunches can be more securely stowed makinga safer cargo than would the ordinary bunches of shingles.

This makes the cubical con- The binding strips being placed at the edges of the bunch the ends of the shingles are protected against injury by handling. They are also more convenient to handle, it being possible to pick up a bunch with one hand by spanning the narrow edge at its middle and grasping the binding strips. Shingles put up in this manner are much more convenient for the carpenter to lay than When in the oldvform of bunch as the butts are all one way as they must be before the putting on of the roof.

The size of the bunch of shingles would of f course vary with -the size of the shingles of facture consisting of a bunch of shingles composed of superimposed layers of shingles having their butts all on the same side of the bunch and their tips all on the oppositev side, and suitable means extending across the shingles transversely to the length thereof on the top and bottom of the bunch at both the tip and butt ends for binding the shingles t0- .gether at both ends, and a fastening applied intermediate of the opposite ends of the binding means to prevent said means and shingles becoming separated, substantially as and for the purposes speced.

2. In an article of manufacture consisting of a bunch of shingles With the tips of the shingles all on the same side and their butts all on the opposite side to form a Wedge shaped bunch, means for binding the shingles t0- gether, and a protecting strip applied at the tip end of the bunch and secured thereto t0 protect the thin ends of the shingles, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. The herein described article of manufacture consisting of a bunch of shingles composed of superimposed layers of shingles having their butts all one Way, binding strips at the tips and butts, bands connecting the ends of each pair of binding strips and an additional central band connecting the strips over the ends of the shingles, substantially as shown and described.

4t. The herein described article of manufacture consisting of a bunch of shingles composed of superimposed layers of shingles having their butts all one Way, binding strips at their tips and butts, bands connecting these strips in pairs and one or more nails driven through the strips at the tips of the shingles at points intermediate their ends, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses. GEORGE I-I. MEGQUIER.

Witnesses:

H. L. REYNOLDS, J. B. MURPHY. 

